Services – Earthly Strategies

How We Work

External consultant support

We work on projects that can be conducted outside of your organization’s day-to-day operations. We also can support from an advisory perspective, offering professional guidance, expertise, and strategic advice.

Fractional sustainability team

We embed our team members within your organization to work as partners on new and ongoing sustainability projects.

Upskilling Support

We provide training and organizational coaching in technical areas of social and environmental sustainability so your team can feel confident taking the next steps in your sustainability journey.

Sustainability Strategy Development

Develop your vision for the future

A comprehensive sustainability strategy serves as a north star for an organization in creating their vision for the future. Our team can help you identify your biggest areas of impact and opportunity. We’ll work with you to develop or refine a comprehensive sustainability strategy that reflects your organization’s priorities and creates meaningful change for your industry and stakeholders.

Assess your environmental and social impact to get a tangible understanding of your organization’s effect.
Conduct a materiality assessment to gain a holistic view of risks, opportunities and impacts for your organization through an ESG lens.
Refresh and expand upon your current sustainability strategy
Benchmark against peers and inform what practices make the most sense for your business, amidst stakeholder expectations and business drivers.
Define sustainability strategy, programs and necessary proof points across social and environmental topics.
Develop compelling business cases to support sustainability projects.

Sustainability program management & implementation

Ensuring progress

Going beyond equipping your organization with the processes and systems to ensure progress towards your sustainability goals. We will work closely alongside key individuals in the organization to establish workflows that work best for your team and move forward projects as embedded team members.

Sustainability program management, including continuous strategy improvement based on the latest trends in the industry.
Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for key sustainability programs in alignment with your organization’s ways of working.
Quantify and track your progress against key goals and targets.Assess your environmental and social impact to get a tangible understanding of your organization’s effect.

Reporting, Certifications, and Memberships

communicate your progress

Sustainability reports, third-party certifications, and memberships are an important part of communicating the progress you’ve made to stakeholders in a standardized and reputable way. We’re here to help you navigate priorities amidst the landscape of sustainability certifications, ratings & rankings and reporting.

Develop a reporting framework aligned to your organization’s goals and needs
Communicate progress to your stakeholders through a sustainability/impact report.
Analyze gaps to help your organization understand what it needs to achieve a specific standard or certification.
Examples of Certifications, Memberships, Goals and Reporting Frameworks We Support:
- Organization and Product-Level Certification: B Corp, Positive Luxury, Climate Neutral
- Goals and Frameworks: Science-based targets, Long-term goal setting in line with industry and global standards, SASB, GRI, TNFD, CDP
- Memberships: United Nations Global Compact, Business for Social Responsibility, Initiative for Responsible Mining, Watch & Jewelry Initiative 2030

Communications, Education, and Stakeholder Engagement

Building Buy-in

One of the most difficult parts of implementing sustainability programs and projects is effectively communicating and aligning your key stakeholders on the purpose, vision, and project logistics internally and externally. We have extensive experience in bringing stakeholders of various levels of expertise to the level of knowledge required to understand, support, and execute their role in sustainability programs.

Internal Stakeholders:
- Cross functional stakeholder engagement
- C-Suite and executive leadership communication and strategy
- Employee communication and education strategy
- Employee Resource Group (ERG) support and development
- Workshop and training facilitation
External stakeholders:
- External stakeholder mapping and engagement plans
- Building engagement and support from NGOs and Government stakeholders, including the communities they represent.
- Investors
- Other Industry experts

Research & Benchmarking

Empowering evidence-based decisions, gain critical insight

Research plays a pivotal role for organizations in the decision-making process. Our team can help collect and translate complex data tailored to your unique needs. We empower clients to base decisions on data and evidence, and enhance stakeholder confidence.

Understand your organization’s positioning through the lens of sustainability with benchmarking, trend analysis and stakeholder mapping.
Using our deep network of collaborators across fields and roles, get support with bespoke assignments to tease out new and/or complicated sustainability questions from diverse perspectives.